Reply #205: It's true that none of us are perfect. [View All]

We make compromises, because we have to get by in our modern culture, few of us can afford land to be self-sufficient - unless we work to be able to pay for the land, which usually means transportation, and then we aren't self-sufficient. Hard to break out of that work/consumption cycle in industrialized countries.

But normally when we talk about those compromises we have to make, we try to speak as if we understand and regret that we have to make those choices. We don't defend them in arrogant ways, and act like we are superior to people who are less wasteful. I saw below that you accused someone else of being judgmental, which is funny because I read your first post as being incredibly judgmental about women who use recyclable products - calling it gross, and even being offended that more people didn't feel comfortable making a stand to state that it was gross.

I didn't read your post as a regrettable compromise you make, I read it more as trying to convince others NOT to be environmentally responsible, and trying to convince others to be repulsed by the ideas being discussed here. That's like trying to convince others that breast feeding is a bad thing, something that is eww gross ... I can understand if you chose to bottle feed because you are at work all day and can't cope with breast pumps and all, but why go out of your way to put down women who do what really is, at the end of the day, the better thing for their baby and for the environment? Why would you decide to take a public stand AGAINST being healthy and environmentally responsible? What's the goal in that?

If you don't feel you can be environmentally sound on this issue, if you feel you are too squeamish or whatever to deal with your own waste, why not accept that as a failing in yourself quietly, instead of proclaiming it to the world like you are proud of it, and like it's those other people that ought to be ashamed for some reason?